A Great Actor get Graffitied
“I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.” —Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012) While clowning around in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section, I found this […]
Category Archives: Things to See
A New York City Hawk
“The bird hunting a locust is unaware of the hawk hunting him” —A Portuguese Proverb At the corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, only six blocks north of its […]
Brooklyn’s Famous Faces of Clay
“Those, I suppose, are the directors of the society. I can make out Mr. Beecher and Mr. Murphy but I can’t quite make out Dr. Storrs.” The above quote was […]
Sugar, Its Bitter and Sweet Sides
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” —Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) In 1843 the sugar cube, a.k.a. […]
Pride: Then and Now
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” —Saint Augustine (AD 354–AD 430) Ever mindful that pride goeth before a fall; here […]
World War I Memorials, Part One
“One day the Great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.” ―Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898, German Chancellor 1871–1898). Bismarck made this prediction in […]
A Draftman’s Project on Union Square
“No! No! Valerie! Don’t do it!” —Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Warhol’s plea with his would-be assassin Valerie Solanas (1936–1988) I passed through Union Square soon after noon today. This busy cross […]
A Greenwich Village Townhouse and Garden
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) The earth need not only […]
The Gay Graves Tour
“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be […]
Preview #2 of a New Tour
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalize people for this.” —Pope Francis (1936– ) Today, […]
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